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You make it sound so trivial to do, but in fact if you did that you'd burn out. All that ratholing and reading is in fact resting. You can only concentrate so
by mattmanser 9y ago
You make it sound so trivial to do, but in fact if you did that you'd burn out. All that ratholing and reading is in fact resting.
You can only concentrate so many hours a day. Without that resting your productivity drops.
The most productive/best programmer I knew used to piss around flying virtual helicopters for half the afternoon, would throw together prototypes no-one asked him to because he was bored, and went home at 5:30 every day.
- jblow 9y agoI disagree. That ratholing and reading is not resting at all, it is procrastination. If you want to rest, go to lunch or take a coffee break, or meditate or something. > You can only concentrate so many hours a day. Without that resting your productivity drops. This is the kind of thing people tell themselves to justify procrastination. If you are unable to concentrate for long, maybe you have damaged your attention span by too much internet browsing, and the cure is just to stop?
- nostrademons 9y agoYou say this, and yet here you are, posting repeatedly on HN. :-P